Bring it On - Capitalism and Prosperity v. Socialism and Poverty

ok doser

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Oh yeah...SCTV and I go waaaay back. And the resultant Makenzie Brother of course. :D
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Arthur Brain

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:unsure: I think that it may be a particularly American conceit to not care about the internal affairs of other countries. I noticed this during my time in the military that other countries citizens knew waaaay more (Albeit a kind of twisted parody version; our own fault as this is the way we portray ourselves.) about us than we knew about them.

I think this in itself says volumes about us.

:rolleyes: As for me, due to my own odd personality, one aspect being that I am an information junkie; I tend to be quite aware of the issues of the rest of the world...But here's the thing: It is rare that I care? enough to comment.

Is it a bad thing that I don't consider it "my business" unless it directly effects my country?...Am I to be my brothers keeper...Even on a national level? Is my surface level understanding of their issues adequate to comment intelligently on their cultural situations?

My own personal philosophical default is that indifference always leads to evil...But that's not the only way for evil to be done is it? :cautious:
On your first, possibly, well, definitely but certainly not exclusively. There is a kind of arrogance associated with America that isn't always justified but also understandable IMO.

It isn't an odd personality trait to be an information junkie. If it is, it's like having a disease that actually benefits the 'sufferer'...:D

I think it's only natural to be more concerned with homegrown politics first and how international events can affect that. I think most if us are seeing and experiencing that with the Ukraine crisis. Still, it's up to people as individuals as to how they react to that and how relevant it is to comment.

IMNSHO...
 

Idolater

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On your first, possibly, well, definitely but certainly not exclusively. There is a kind of arrogance associated with America that isn't always justified but also understandable IMO.
I have that in spades. It'd be nationalism if it were based on race (or ethnicity), but it's not. It's entirely ideological, divorced from race. I'm absolutely an American exceptionalist, but it has nothing to do with white or Black, Latino or Latinx. It's just our framing documents.
It isn't an odd personality trait to be an information junkie. If it is, it's like having a disease that actually benefits the 'sufferer'...:D
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Like being addicted to eating healthy and going to the gym regularly.
 

TomO

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I have that in spades. It'd be nationalism if it were based on race (or ethnicity), but it's not. It's entirely ideological, divorced from race. I'm absolutely an American exceptionalist, but it has nothing to do with white or Black, Latino or Latinx. It's just our framing documents.
:unsure: I think that you would have a hard time convincing the rest of the world that American exceptionalism is not a nationalist sentiment.

Like being addicted to eating healthy and going to the gym regularly.
There was actually a point in my life where I can say I was there. :LOL:
 
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Idolater

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:unsure: I think that you would have a hard time convincing the rest of the world that American exceptionalism is not a nationalist sentiment.
Granted. Doesn't mean I'm wrong though.
There was actually a point in my life where I can say I was there. :LOL:
I think addictions are what they are within a value system, if a habit is destroying something you value, like your health, your relationships, your faith, your finances, then you can think of that as an addiction. So long as your eating healthy and working out isn't damaging something else which you value then it's really tongue-in-cheek, which is what I meant. As I'm sure you know.
 

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ok doser

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Granted. Doesn't mean I'm wrong though.

I think addictions are what they are within a value system, if a habit is destroying something you value, like your health, your relationships, your faith, your finances, then you can think of that as an addiction. So long as your eating healthy and working out isn't damaging something else which you value then it's really tongue-in-cheek, which is what I meant. As I'm sure you know.
Like all things eating healthy is best if done in moderation 😁
 

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You should have researched that a bit more thoroughly as UN has already pointed out to you. Gotta love the irony though...
I remember it being common knowledge that the internet was an invention of the US military. Another Mandela effect?
 

Arthur Brain

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I remember it being common knowledge that the internet was an invention of the US military. Another Mandela effect?
Then as before you need to do some research before issuing a statement without substance. No one person invented the internet although Tim Berners-Lee created the world wide web. The origins of how we got to where we are now go back to many different people including from America and the UK so it's childish to pretend that the internet is an American invention just as it would be for me to claim it was a British one. Not only childish in fact but stupid.

 
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